Japan executes man for 2008 rampage that killed 7 in Tokyo

Japan carried out its first execution of the year July 26 when it hanged a man convicted of killing seven people in a random stabbing spree that started after he deliberately rammed a rented truck into a crowd of people in Tokyo’s Akihabara district in 2008. [Read More]

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